The News Review:
- After the iPhone
- Partners Aim to Make Conferencing Cheap and Simple
- School syllabus holds back future coders says MP
After the iPhone
cnn.com – Oct 31, 2007
Though I must say every few weeks some data did not sync properly and a complete re-sync was necessary. When that happened many of my quick key and voice tags were lost but nothing of real value. Even better the phone comes with mobile versions of Word Excel and PowerPoint built in. It’s a great feature but typing on the tiny computer is dicey. Stories written on the Mogul can come off as complete gibberish if I am not careful although my editors accuse me of blaming the phone when my feeble typing is the real culprit. Still I have made deadlines while at the airport at a birthday party and at an abandoned airfield. The thing is a lifesaver.
Partners Aim to Make Conferencing Cheap and Simple
eWeek – Oct 31, 2007
“You dont have to preload anything You can do desktop sharing but the individual with the content controls it. And you can share all kinds of things” he said. That contrasts with high-end Web conferencing offerings from vendors such as IBM and Microsoft whose on-premises offerings are more complex. “There are a ton of bells and whistles in Web conferencing products. It becomes incredibly confusing for users. There is a minority of users who need multimedia presentations” said Cory… 5 audio conferencing service pioneer FreeConference will launch its partnership with visual collaboration platform provider Vyew. The two vendors integrated their respective offerings to allow conference participants to share and annotate a range of document types. fficials of the two companies believe they have created the first free integrated Web conferencing and visual collaboration service. They each offer services that integrate the others technology. FreeConference for its part is offering the new SharePlus service with desktop sharing based on Vyews visual collaboration platform. It allows conference participants to share documents and applications in real time using a single mouse click.
School syllabus holds back future coders says MP
ComputerWeekly.com – Oct 31, 2007
“To have a classroom of people who can do a Powerpoint presentation does not convince me that the future of British software engineering is safe. We cannot afford to have a nation of people who are allegedly IT proficient but actually only have simple know-how in Microsoft applications. ” The Qualifications and Curriculum Authority said GCSEs and A-levels were designed to encourage students to become “discerning users of ICT with an appreciation of the range of systems and their applications as well as their capabilities and limitations”. A spokesperson said “These are general qualifications and they are not intended primarily to train students in the use of specific hardware software or programming languages but to understand the principles on which they are all based. However A-level computing courses do contain a significant focus on programming and the understanding of hardware… “To have a classroom of people who can do a Powerpoint presentation does not convince me that the future of British software engineering is safe. We cannot afford to have a nation of people who are allegedly IT proficient but actually only have simple know-how in Microsoft applications. ” The Qualifications and Curriculum Authority said GCSEs and A-levels were designed to encourage students to become “discerning users of ICT with an appreciation of the range of systems and their applications as well as their capabilities and limitations”. A spokesperson said “These are general qualifications and they are not intended primarily to train students in the use of specific hardware software or programming languages but to understand the principles on which they are all based. However A-level computing courses do contain a significant focus on programming and the understanding of hardware. “There is also a wide range of vocational qualifications available to young people who want to develop more specific skills for a career in ICT.